StarkillerAG said:

Jesus dude, you don’t need to be an ass about it. I’m not just trying to silence any criticism, I have plenty of problems with Disney’s current output. It just seems like Disney Star Wars has been a never ending cycle of schadenfreude for you.

It’s one thing to complain about getting stomach flu from a restaurant, it’s a whole other thing to keep going back to that restaurant even after getting stomach flu there numerous times. And the latter is what you seem to be doing.

Did you even read my latest post right up above your educational biography? I praise where due, and I criticize where due. If you don’t like that then I’m not going to apologize.

You seem to have targeted me out of the blue among many voiced opinions in here because… what? You don’t like my analysis?

Thank you, Starkiller, for educating me. I will now live my life in utter silence and pick better things on the sushi buffet. And if I get a stomach flu, instead of complaining to the restaurant owner, I’ll just say to him; “No worries, mate. I won’t criticize your horrible food or health proceedures! I will just go to another sushi restaurant the next time. The one across the street is brilliant actually.”

The world will now become a better place.

Streamable has shit 720p cap so can’t do much about the video quality. I can upload a high bitrate to Google Drive for those who want.

People can do what they want with it. Can upload one with and without music. This was made for those who didn’t have the skill and/or time to put it together themselfs.

As for the deepfake, if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. 😃

To be fair, I have and will release two versions. So you can literally choose your ending.

The original plan was to have her die to give Season 8/last film some urgency and high stakes, but since the Jon Snow show will come out I don’t want to ruin the continuity.

I can “spoiler-Warning” say that one character will die tho, in the upcoming film. But that’ll be for release.

CDorius said:

Wasn’t it so, that he makes ANHR:HD and ROTJR:HD more or less simultaneously?
And that they will be released at the same time respectively shortly one after another?

He must release it when we demand, or we will cast him out! He has been warned in PM.

AotC Inclusion Clip

The clip with more finetuned foley:

https://streamable.com/nf9lw0 (No Obi-Wan deepfake here)

Deepfake

And since so many dislike Obi-Wan’s “aged” appearance (although I don’t mind, since AotC aged Ewan McGregor up with prosthetics and makeup), here’s the Obi-Wan deepfake:

https://streamable.com/3oslfa

Bear in mind that Ewan McGregor did some prosthetics work to appear older in the Prequels, so he has different appearance of his eyebrows. I think I struck a balance here tho, merging the deepfake and the original part. The deepfake alone made his face significantly different from his original, more aged appearance.

Only did the 3-4 first shots of Obi-Wan since it’s so time consuming. If it’s good enough, I can probably do the whole schtick. At least the necessary shots. Many of the dueling close-ups with blue glow are definitely not necessary and will be a nightmare anyway.

The sad thing, in all honesty, is that we know Disney have both the funds and the talent to create amazing, beautiful things. Like some of the best Star Wars we could possibly imagine. It’s easy to forget all this when we vent out our immense frustration, which is completely warranted by the way, but it’s clear that with all the brilliant directors, writers, actors and who knows what they don’t have at their disposal they are still so disconnected from the fans and not in any way, shape or form willing to take a failure on the chin and move on to something better with the criticism in mind.

Instead, they fight back… thinking they’re doing it for any other than their own pride.

It’s a difference between criticism, and abuse. They label it all as the latter. “And that, is why you fail…”

Let’s hope for better Star Wars content in the future. ❤️

I haven’t gotten the time to finetune all the foley and audio levels, and I threw this together while watching Champions League (xDDD), so feel free to give feedback if you want the 5.1 mp4 file and some changes made to it.

General list of changes (used snooker’s music-free stereo track for the center channel):

• 5.1 surround, with custom surround ambience, sounds etc.
• Color graded to look like AotC’s color grading (increased glow in background, less bright colors, more vintage)
• Rescored to feel upbeat and hopeful, as their relationship should be at this time. Only foreshadowing is at the end, with Anakin’s and Padme’s Love Theme and then the mother theme to accompany Anakin’s facial expression.
• Edited it to be less obvious it consists of chopped parts, by removing “Anakin’s Victory”. It destroys flow imo.

https://streamable.com/5nzarr

Picture for reference: https://media.doblu.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Star-Wars-Attack-of-the-Clones.mkv_snapshot_00.07.11_2020.04.08_14.19.26-scaled.jpg

Oh, and Streamable has compressed it to a stereo file so some of the background ambience might be/is louder than in the 5.1 surround file.

To be fair, I don’t think moving on is the bigger issue for people here. I think we’re used to that and I myself find that fairly easy.

The bigger issue is that the fans of this beloved franchise ARE moving on, rather than playing along. Now that is where the true worry is, for both fans and creators.

I can take a crack at this using Snooker’s clean stereo. Got a lot of foley sounds in my library and am bored.

Give me an hour or two.

I completely agree with you, WitchDR. Perfectly illustrated points.

Just for my own personal analysis of what Star Wars Disney has given me these last years and what they’ve made me feel besides anger was Luke’s return in the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian and Han’s death in The Force Awakens. The other instances were Leia’s death in a fanedit by, I think, Spencer. And Hal9000’s Force Ghosts at the end of his edit. The reason I’m saying this is that I find it totally and utterly crazy that the only time Disney Star Wars has hit me in the feels is two times in eight years. The other times has been through f*kin’ fanedits due to Disney’s bad execution of their own story points and the emotional weight of them.

They surely lack the bridge between their own vision of what Star Wars is and should be and the fans’s, when they can’t stick a landing for the life of them. It’s a complete and utter mess.

They had ONE good live-action property that the masses care(d) about - ONE! And it was The Mandalorian. They messed up everything else! Everything! Now their viewerships numbers are in the bin compared to the last two seasons, and The Mandalorian is a redundant sidekick of a mess in his own series.

Hello, brother. Nice to hear from you again.

As a non-english-speaking fella’ myself I feel you. I’ve watched films with subtitles all my life, so I wish it would take me a few mere seconds. Unfortunately, the only way I’ve found to create subtitles take forever and it’s patience work beyond belief.

I can look for better solutions and try to create some subtitles soon.

Oh dear.

The thing is that no one wanted to see Luke dead in the first place, and definitely not to be replaced by Rey - a character few have grown to care for and a character we’ve not seen struggle for her achieved triumphs. It’s like sacrificing your house to buy a motorbike. It just doesn’t hold the same value to most people and will always be considered a very bad choice that people can’t fathom.

Having Luke around will only be to get the bank bucks from “The Politically-Evil Spirited Sequel Haters” and we all know it. It will hardly be satisfactory either having a beloved character that raised million of children as a blue force orb trying to teach Rey a lesson or two for the THIRD film in a row. Some people will go to the cinema and watch it, others will wait for stream - and I suspect a large amount of the fanbase here and elsewhere will torrent it in pure disdain and hatred. Either way, It’s going to make money and it’s going to be canon.

Until the day they either sell or replace the majoritfy of their staff, this is what we’re going to get and we’ll just have to bend over and either close our eyes or try to enjoy it.

Thank the maker we have brilliant faneditors that can salvage things from The Sequels for people who want to give them a new chance.

Rey Skywalker, you’re our only hope.

G&G-Fan said:

The word “objectively” in film criticism is baffling. People do realize story and character tropes that we call “good writing” are designed strictly to evoke emotional reactions out of people? “Good” dependents on whether it evoked the right emotional reaction out of people. And emotional reactions are subjective. The very nature of judging film is subjective.

The only way you can use “objectively” in film criticism is if you’re describing what straight up does and doesn’t happen. Like, someone would be objectively wrong to say Darth Vader never sits down in the OT.

No, I agree as much as I disagree here. I still go back to my metaphor: If a bike is not built properly and therefore not working as a bike, but it gives some people amusement, is it subjectivly a good bike or objectively a bad bike? In essence, it’s not OBJECTIVELY working as a bike, but it works subjectively for some as entertainment or fun.

I’m not disregarding opinion, I’m questioning if the trilogy is structurally flawed in it’s connective tissue in a subjective versus factual manner.

Definition of a trilogy:

A trilogy is a set of three distinct works that are connected

Objectively the three films are connected AND disconnected, as they also work AGAINST eachother’s established characters, plot developments and future goals; making one to the other redundant or outright breaking the connection with the previous in many aspects of the “connective” tissue. A case could be made for both I suppose, because you could argue that they are “connected because they have the same characters in them and they share similar ideas”. But if the film trilogy also break with its own connected material and fights itself in its overall execution, does that not also go against the connection established and built? Rendering most of it, if not all, completely useless as a trilogy built on connection - CONNECTING WITH EACHOTHER, when they are in fact, in many regards, fighting eachother (just like it’s director’s differing views and execution)? But as of now, tired as fuck as I am (4 am here), I will stand by this. Perhaps I’m overthinking. Perhaps I’m underthinking it. Perhaps I just wanted some action before I went to bed. Who knows? I might be a Sith Lord after all. Or the Jedi to save Grogu.

Either way, may the force be with Disney because they need it more than us.

Good night ❤️

BedeHistory731 said:

Saying “Objectively bad” immediately discredits any criticisms, IMHO. Especially since “objectively bad” is such a thoroughly reactionary thing to say.

Perhaps. Perhaps not. Perhaps objectivity is just as subjective as everything else now. It’s 2023 after all, and opinions are far more important than facts. I suppose a broken radio would still be considered subjectivly a good radio these days, if enough people put their minds to it.

Either way, if you analyze what I wrote one more time I think you will understand my arguement better. I might be wrong, but I think it’s a great arguement for why I think I’m right. So there’s that.

StarkillerAG said:

Anjohan said:

The prequels had story, but lacked characters. The sequels had neither. That is why they are objectively the worst trilogy.

Huh? Literally no part of that makes any sense. Both trilogies had story and characters, whether good or bad, and “objectivity” can only rarely be applied to art (and certainly not here).

And again, this is not about your personal feelings regarding the sequel trilogy, it’s about what makes the most economic sense for Disney to do. I have plenty of issues with the sequels, don’t get me wrong, but box office numbers don’t care about your feelings.

The prequels prevailed in it’s story but lacked in it’s depth of the characters. But the films built and complimented on one another, and had a clear vision for the audience to see. Therefore, they succeeded as a trilogy. The Sequels lacked in all structural departments, and crumbled in on itself with director’s fighting eachother’s vision and disregarding eachother’s structural development of the story. Even the character’s changed and/or lost character traits from one film to another, some even so much that they went from a defined, serious character to a comedy character or even main character to sidekick.

If I build a bike that doesn’t work, but it’s funny to ride it because it looks funny and entertains people, then it’s still a bad bike whether people find it entertaining or not. But it will always objectively be a bad bike that failed in its execution.

As a trilogy, The Sequels are objectively bad. But they might be subjectively good individual pieces of cinema. In other words, you can like the films both as a trilogy as well as individual film(s), but they’re failed installments in a trilogy structure with a beginning, middle and end that builds and compliments on one another. Objectively badly structured, subjectively good and/or bad as individual films (in an objectively badly executed TRILOGY).

The prequels had story, but lacked characters. The sequels had neither. That is why they are objectively the worst trilogy.

The Boba Fett and Mandalorian storyline will be one movie, titled something appropriate as soon as one such comes to mind. I’m not going to make two seperate movies as originally planned. About 1 hour and 58 minutes.

The Present Day storyline of Boba Fett is not satisfying enough to carry the film alone - the plot is simply too thin and repedative. 40 minutes of politics and meetings and weird character decisions and varying tones in the Second Act crumbles the film. It also lacks a Third Act unless it is the combined Boba and Mando conclusion (EP 7 in other words).

Therefore, the film start with Boba’s Tusken storyline - follows it chronologically - and then we are introduced to Mando as soon as Boba and Fennec overthrow Bib Fortuna. This works like a charm and the two storylines can then compliment eachother.

The storyline’s are heavily re-structured and I’ve tried to achieve higher emotional stakes, and a more balanced, dramatic tone, to the overall story.

Good episode, horrible season. Let’s hope for a good ending. This season will be a decent to good film at a roughly 100 minutes, but a below decent season whether they stick the landing or not. A multitude of the episodes this season has been some of the worst television I’ve ever witnessed.

And yes, some of The Mandalorian and the upcoming television shows are trying to give The First Order and New Republic some soul. I appreciate the effort, but Disney need to hire some quality writers to structure their shows better. A lot better. Most of us care zero about The Sequel Trilogy, so to even raise curiosity for “general fans” that don’t delve deep into their other media (books and cartoons and animated shows) they need to have a better plan and way better dialogue and not bombard each individual episodes with random, forced lore that has been spread thin several episodes ago.

The Mandalorian has gone from a Sci-fi western with a parent protecting a child to “Bo Katan’s adventures with Mando” and “The Rise of the New Republic”.

If Ahsoka and their other upcoming shows keep to Mandalorian Season 3’s standard, I will be jumping off the bandwagon before they can say Bantha. But then again, I have no attachment to the Cartoon Shows and like my Star Wars epic, gritty, real and engaging.

PM sent.

Chapter II uploaded.

Season 2 at 1 hour and 59 minutes before credits.

Update

Chapter II of The Mandalorian is itching close. Need to do some final FX tweaks and audio transitions, and then we’re there. This is way more radical than the first - in a good way, as Season 2 is very good but all over the place structure-wise. Oh, and here’s the opening in case you’re curious;

https://streamable.com/9m7j4g

PMs sent.

I’ve heard it might be a challenge, but I like a challenge. So I’ll see. In worst case I’ll make two films out of the season.

And I’m very excited for your feedback!